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Nikhil Anand

Author: Nikhil Anand

Nikhil is a Solutions Architect at AWS with an extensive background in DevOps and Compute offerings at AWS. He is an avid reader keen to explore different technologies. Outside of work, he likes to keep himself engaged with sports and never misses a workout opportunity.

Understanding the AWS Batch termination process

In this blog post, we help you understand the AWS Batch job termination process and how you may take actions to gracefully terminate a job by capturing SIGTERM signal inside the application. It provides you with an efficient way to exit your Batch jobs. You also get to know about how job timeouts occur, and how the retry operation works with both traditional AWS Batch jobs and array jobs.